Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: On the night of August 31–September 1, 1983, a Boeing 747 belonging to Korean Air Lines was shot down by a Soviet fighter plane over Sakhalin Island after it had strayed off its assigned flight route connecting Anchorage and Seoul. All 269 aboard, 29 members of the flight crew and 240 passengers representing 15 nationalities including 18 children, were killed in the incident.
Author: Sugwon Kang
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2315537814